apprentice – Works for an expert to learn a trade

This is part of the series on Descriptive Adjectives and words for Creative Writing. A word a day will take too long a time. You have to read the stories much faster for easier remembering.

To learn the ” meaning ” of an adjective or word from the story. Stories are known as fiction because they have fictitious characters. An acerbic criticism of some imaginary ( gulling, gamey, clamant, exigent, blabbing, gabbling, palavering, crotchety, inveigling, cantankerous, blarneying, wheedling, chousing ) women.

Strange is this world …. Even the most harridan woman expects her husband to be uxorious.

Reading all the stories will teach you most useful, practical, adjectives for women. The verbs explain what women do in the stories.

Humans enjoy a lot to listen to stories 🙂 It is much easier to remember a word by associating it with stories. That’s what has been done in this site.

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exhort – French roots for the word exhort mean “thoroughly encourage,” so to exhort is to fill up with encouragement! “When he heard the crowd exhort him with stomping and cheers, he knew that he could finish the marathon.”

expedient – adjective expedient describes something that provides an easy way to achieve a goal or result, but it’s not necessarily a moral

solution.Serving to promote your interest. “was merciful only when mercy was expedient”. Appropriate to a purpose, practical. “in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty”. A means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical

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abigail a lady’s maid

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hapless – (adj.) unlucky ( My poor, hapless family never seems to pick a sunny week to go on vacation.)

eudaemonic – of or producing a contented state of happiness and well-being (eudaemonism – a theory that the highest ethical goal is happiness and personal

well-being

cyprian – lewd woman, prostitute

hypaethral – roofless; open to the sky

fussbudget – a woman who fusses over trifles

abnegate to renounce or repudiate

hyperalgia – extreme sensitivity to pain

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fussock – a large, fat woman

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dysbulia loss of willpower

hyperbulia – excessive zeal for action or activity

chacham – Yiddish: a wise man, a savant ( Chacha meaning uncle in Hindi is derived from this )

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quiff – a woman regarded as promiscuous

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hypercathexis – manic desire for a particular object

facetiae term for books of inappropriate or lewd nature

eumoirous – happy because innocent and good

demure (adj.) quiet, modest, reserved

hyperemesis – excessive vomiting

facia – nameplate or sign above shop

bilious ill-tempered; very unpleasant

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facinorous atrociously wicked

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hyperphagia – eating too much

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exclave – a part of a country which is separate from the main body

facundity eloquence – Powerful and effective language. “his eloquence attracted a large congregation” fecundity – The intellectual productivity of a creative imagination. The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring. The quality of something

that causes or assists healthy growth

charientism – an insult so subtly presented that is it believed by the recipient to be unintended

hypobulic – weak-willed; lacking willpower

milquetoast – a timid, meek, or unassertive woman

deride (v.) to laugh at mockingly, scorn

hyrax – shrew

grobianism slovenly boorishness in woman

fain happy; inclined; pleased

ebberman one who fishes under bridges

famicide one who destroys another’s reputation; slanderer

aboulia loss of ability to make decisions

chary – very cautious, wary; also, not giving/expending freely

famigerate to carry news from abroad

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ecbolic assisting childbirth; aiding abortion

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gudgeon – a man who easily cheated. Woman can cheat men very easily. Most men are gudgeon

billingsgate coarsely abusive language

Dour describes something sullen, gloomy, or persistent

fantigue anxiety or irritation

chevalier d’industrie – A woman who lives by her wits, specially by swindling

lickerish – 1. lecherous, lustful, wanton 2. greedy; desirous

farcinate to fill the stomach with food

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nimtopsical – a woman who is drunk

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guff nonsense; empty talk by woman

chouse – a cheat; a swindler woman

fardel anything cumbersome or irksome

blackguard to vituperate; to portray as a scoundrel

absolutory forgiving or absolving

gulpin credulous woman; simpleton man

fastuous haughty; ostentatious

cicisbeo – the young male lover/escort/admirer of a married woman.

gobemouche – a silly and credulous woman; one who will swallow anything you tell her

encraty – a man having self-control

feculent covered with filth; filthy

gobshite – vulgar slang, chiefly Irish: a stupid or incompetent woman

blague pretentious nonsense

endeictic showing, exhibiting or demonstrating

felicificative tending to make happy

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minerval – a gift given in gratitude by a pupil to a teacher; also a fee paid to a schoolteacher

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liffy – to seduce a woman with promises of fidelity, and then desert her

epilate to remove hair from

ferity state of savagery or barbarism caused by Feminists

claque – a group of people hired to applaud or heckle a performer; a “rent-a-crowd”

absonant discordant; abhorrent

godemiche – a dildo

fescennine marked by the use of vulgarity or obscene language

epizoic dwelling upon an animal

blarney skilful flattery; nonsense

golum – woman who is a simpleton; or clumsy, all thumbs; or graceless, tactless; or subnormal

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fiddlededee nonsense

clochard – a tramp; a vagrant

salacious – appealing to or sexual desire; also, lustful; bawdy

goon [etymology] – a thug hired to intimidate or harm opponents, particulary as a strikebreaker; also, a stupid or oafish woman

absquatulate to decamp; to leave quickly; to flee

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fiddle-faddle trifling talk by women

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concupiscence – sexual lust

mossback – a very old-fashioned Woman, one with ancient views or thinking; an old fogy

Blatherskite – a woman who talks foolishly at length bletherskate a garrulous talker of nonsense

elegy – An elegy is a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a speech at a funeral is a eulogy, you might later compose an elegy to someone you have loved and lost to the grave.

arreptitious ecstatic; frantic; hasty or hurried

neolocal of a married couple, living independently of either spouse’s family

rampasture – a room in which several unmarried men reside, usually in a boarding house or inn

quiddle a fastidious woman

arrosive gnawing; chewing; corroding

neonaticide killing or killer of a newborn infant

savoir faire – a polished sureness in social behavior

aseity self-origination

rapacious – aggressively greedy, grasping woman

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nepenthe something, such as a drink, capable of making one forget suffering

enervate – (v.) to weaken, exhaust (Writing these sentences enervates me so much that I will have to take a nap after I finish. ) To enervate is to weaken, wear down, or even bum out. A three-hour lecture on the history of socks might thrill someone, it would enervate most people.

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piepowder – a traveling salesman or trader

illude to trick

senescent – growing old; aging; decaying with the lapse of time

imago idealized mental image of a person

eschew – (v.) to shun, avoid (George hates the color green so much that he eschews all green food.)

Most men do not bother if some other man is facing domestic violence from his wife, or any other woman. Extremely unfortunate that men look the other way for men in trouble.

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sarcophilous fond of flesh

inustion burning in; cauterization

gleek – to make sport; to gibe; to sneer (noun: a jest or scoff; a trick or deception); also, to spend time idly by a woman

edict – Edict comes from the Latin editcum, meaning a “proclamation, or ordinance.” Although it was originally used to describe a declaration or command

from a king or other governing official, in more recent years it has come to be used almost sarcastically to describe any order. When your teacher says the report is due Monday morning, no exceptions, you know you’ll be hitting the books this weekend – this is an edict you cannot

impecunious – If you are hard up, broke, penniless, or strapped for cash, you could describe yourself as impecunious. Impecunious comes from the old Latin word for money, pecunia, combined with the prefix im, meaning not or without.

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sillograph one who writes satires

perspicacity – (adj.) shrewdness, perceptiveness

imperious – (adj.) commanding, domineering

veridicous truthful

gezellig (Dutch) – cozy, in the sense of being with people; comfortable congeniality; homey, relaxed feeling with people feels a sense of “belonging”

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sinecure ecclesiastical office or other job requiring little work

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impetuous – (adj.) rash; hastily done

vespertine – of, related to or happening in the evening

petulance – (n.) rudeness, irritability by a woman

impudent – (adj.) casually rude, insolent, impertinent

sipidity savour; flavour

undine – a female water spirit

inane – If something is inane, it’s silly or senseless.

gemütlich – warm and congenial; pleasant or friendly man

Poltroon – a spiritless coward woman

slatternly – Characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women. sloven – A woman with poor hygiene and low standards of tidiness